Rob
TS Team
- Favourite Ride
- Steel Vengeance
Blue Fire is not garbage, end of story. Temple of the Night Hawk, G-Force, Goudurix, Togo stand ups etc. - they are garbage. Blue Fire is hardly the best coaster in the world but the whole experience is just pleasing and uplifting. Track and train it's probably average yes, but I'm sorry, garbage it is not.
I walked into that Wodan response. I feel it is phenomenal wherever you sit in the train and at whatever time of day but certain rides in certain conditions can be even more special (this is often the case on many great coasters I find).
Plopsa is a really nice park, I enjoyed my day there, but it is nowhere near the level of EP, Disney, Phatasialand etc. It's a great small family park. Fair enough with Asterix, I've only been once and like you with EP I never really got given that desire to return. Having said that I would like to once their new coaster opens.
By real I mean that the park does not feel like some fantasy world that in reality you could never actually be in. Every area of the park feels like a real place; the architecture is all based on real places, the food is authentic, it's hard to put into words but much about EP is like that. I feel from a planning and design point of view they have nearly perfected the art of placemaking. Walt Disney managed it and Roland Mack has done it also but in a very different style. There is a quality without a name.
That helicopter is in the Mack Bank preview centre yes? It's just a promition for the new ride, they've been using a helicopter for much of the filming. If you did not go into El Andaluz then I recommend that you never do, the Roland Mack photo wall will not be for you! The Mack's do love themselves and love to show off. It's just how they are but it has brought them sucesses beyond what they could have imagined back in 1975. What other parks or places have Mack all over them though? None, because EP is an independent park. It feels a bit like a Mack showcase because the park is a showroom for Mack rides.
I walked into that Wodan response. I feel it is phenomenal wherever you sit in the train and at whatever time of day but certain rides in certain conditions can be even more special (this is often the case on many great coasters I find).
Plopsa is a really nice park, I enjoyed my day there, but it is nowhere near the level of EP, Disney, Phatasialand etc. It's a great small family park. Fair enough with Asterix, I've only been once and like you with EP I never really got given that desire to return. Having said that I would like to once their new coaster opens.
By real I mean that the park does not feel like some fantasy world that in reality you could never actually be in. Every area of the park feels like a real place; the architecture is all based on real places, the food is authentic, it's hard to put into words but much about EP is like that. I feel from a planning and design point of view they have nearly perfected the art of placemaking. Walt Disney managed it and Roland Mack has done it also but in a very different style. There is a quality without a name.
That helicopter is in the Mack Bank preview centre yes? It's just a promition for the new ride, they've been using a helicopter for much of the filming. If you did not go into El Andaluz then I recommend that you never do, the Roland Mack photo wall will not be for you! The Mack's do love themselves and love to show off. It's just how they are but it has brought them sucesses beyond what they could have imagined back in 1975. What other parks or places have Mack all over them though? None, because EP is an independent park. It feels a bit like a Mack showcase because the park is a showroom for Mack rides.